2008-05-25

Eurovision

I did not succeed in becoming interested in any of the songs, sorry. But a bunch of tourists came, they all seemed to enjoy themselves, and nobody was attacked by skinheads. So that has to count as a success.

You went to Belgrade just for the Eurovision song contest ... I am still trying to analyse the geo-strategic implication of the voting from Bosnia-Herzegovina ... I think it was Turkey 8 points, Croatia 10 points, and Serbia 12 points!

@Paul, simple, block voting plus there's Serbs in Bosnia, and Bosnians in Serbia, and there's Croats in Bosnia, and you can't vote for your own country. Basically Turkey is more in the Central Asia block as far as block voting. I was surprised Turkey didn't give more points, but there isn't much of a Bosnian diaspora left in Turkey. Sandzak probably accounted for some Serbian points for BiH, and then the whole ex-Yu against the World factor probably contributed.